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Ebook About "I am awed by my destructive power. With a small squeeze of the gun trigger under my right index finger, I can rip the turret off a thirty-ton battle tank and throw it 200 feet across the desert, while the rest of the tank burns in an explosion of white-hot, burning phosphorescence. But the cold, morbid reality of it does not exist from where I sit and watch it happen. There's no dramatic chord. No deafening explosion. No screams suddenly stifled. The soundtrack of a pilot's war is mostly silent."The mighty, iconic A-10 Warthog was first thrust into battle in Operation Desert Storm. The men who took it through walls of flak and surface-to-air missiles to help defeat the world's fourth-largest army were as untested as their airplanes, so they relied on personal determination and the amazing A-10 to accomplish their missions, despite the odds.Hogs in the Sand is the epic and deeply-personal year-long journey of one of those pilots as he fights an increasingly terrifying war, all the while attempting to win over a woman and keep control of his internal demons. For anyone who has admired the Warthog, seen it in action, or called upon it to be their salvation, this story will fulfill a desire to virtually strap into the cockpit, while gaining unprecedented understanding of the mind of a modern combat pilot.Book Hogs in the Sand: A Gulf War A-10 Pilot's Combat Journal Review :
If you have any interest in what it’s like for a real, honest-to-goodness normal guy to find himself in the middle of a desert war as a modern-day Air Force fighter pilot, you should read this book.Buck Wyndham takes you through his time overseas as USAF A-10 pilot, beginning with his deployment at a base in England, and then how he and his squadron mates ended up in a tent on a brand new airbase in the middle of the Saudi desert, helping to force Saddam Hussein’s army out of Kuwait, first in Desert Shield, and then as a part of the awesome operation we know as Desert Storm.Buck kept a daily journal during his time in the desert, as well as what life was like for him and his fellow pilots. He turned that journal into this book, in order to share the experience with those of us who have never done anything close to what they did.In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve known Buck Wyndham as a friend, neighbor, and fellow airline pilot for nearly 20 years. But although I knew he was a “Hog driver” in his prior life, I didn’t know about that part of his story, because Buck just isn’t the type to brag about being a warrior. But I bought this book, Buck didn’t ask me to read it.As someone who almost went that route in my own career, but was just a little too young to fly in Vietnam, I was fascinated to read the details of what it was like to be right in the middle of the fray. The excitement, the boredom, the fatigue, the elation, the disappointment, the uncertainty, the frustration, and the pride, of being an integral part of such a huge endeavor.After reading this book, I really feel like I know a little more about what their lives and experiences were like, and what it meant to be a “normal” guy finding himself in the middle of something so abnormal as a war.Buck does a really good job of describing his experiences, from the day-to-day grind to his almost poetic descriptions of the pure joy of flight, things that people who haven’t participated in them can’t otherwise hope to understand. This book will help with that. It isn’t just the usual chest-beating fighter pilot “I’m better than you” fare one usually finds. It’s the story of real people, in an almost unreal situation, and how they reconcile themselves to it.Get this book. It’s a great, engaging, exciting read. When I finished it, I texted Buck to tell him how was disappointed that there wasn’t more of it to read. I can’t wait for his next book. Wyndham is a very fine writer, observant, funny, reflective, and in several places confessional. I had the sense that this was someone who I'd look up to and also like if I ever met him.He makes clear, as not all books do, that combat flying in an A 10 is a highly developed skill, and explains in useful but not overwhelming detail what many of those skills are. I came to feel I understood the A 10 - one of my favorite planes - with much more depth than before.He also gives fine insight into the camaraderie of combat flying and of serving in combat generally. He spends a fair amount of time on his relationship with a young captain, Sarah, who serves in mission support with him both before the Gulf War starts back in England where they were based, and later in the desert. He's obviously smitten, but her feelings are less clear. It's a sensitive portrait of their relationship, and again serves to humanize him in a touching way.His descriptions of combat itself are right up there with Ken Bell's, and you almost share the pucker factor with him. But he is also self effacing and modest, refusing, for example, to sit with other combat fliers in an after the war ceremony meant to honor them, almost as if being publically recognized for what he did might in some way misrepresent what for him was a near religious experience.He talks too about how absolutely disorienting the end of a war is. One day you're being chased by AAA and dropping CBUs on targets deep inside Iraq; the next you're packing to go home to England. He's not the first former warrior to note the emptiness of peacetime life after flirting with death. At least one Vietnam Medal of Honor winner had to be forcibly ordered back to the States where the mundanity of life even on an Army base shocked him. A few weeks earlier he had been calling in napalm strikes 100 yards from his position in the jungle. Now he was sitting at a desk shuffling papers.This is also the tale of a young man discovering in the best sense who he is, what he values, and what again in the best sense he is capable of. Perhaps not a book for everyone but I loved it. 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